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Billy Perrigo @billyperrigo.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Is sweatshop data really "over"? I wrote about why the latest provocative essay in the AI world might be jumping the gun: time.com/7306153/ai-s...

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Is 'Sweatshop Data' Really Over?

A new essay argues that low-paid digital labor is becoming a thing of the past. Not so fast, TIME's tech correspondent writes.

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

A big humble thank you to ‪@time.com ‬and @billyperrigo.bsky.social for featuring Signal and me in your roundup of 2025’s most influential companies. An honor to serve alongside an incredible group of people backed by a rad movement ❤️ time.com/collections/...

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How Signal President Meredith Whittaker Took on Signal-Gate

Whittaker was forced to respond to a political firestorm after a White House blunder turned private chats into a national crisis

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Aman Batheja @amanbatheja.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

New: TIME reporters were able to use Google’s AI video tool to make convincing videos of Muslims setting fire to a Hindu temple; Chinese researchers handling a bat in a wet lab; and elections worker shredding ballots. After TIME contacted Google, it began adding a visible watermark to Veo 3 clips

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Google’s Veo 3 Can Make Deepfakes of War, Riots, Election Fraud

Google’s Veo 3 lets users make hyper-realistic deepfakes—sparking fears about AI’s role in misinformation online.

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Aman Batheja @amanbatheja.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Several experts told TIME’s @andrewrchow.bsky.social and @billyperrigo.bsky.social that if videos like these were shared on social media with a misleading caption in the heat of a breaking news event, it could conceivably fuel social unrest or violence. time.com/7290050/veo-...

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Google’s Veo 3 Can Make Deepfakes of Riots, Election Fraud, Conflict

Google’s Veo 3 lets users make hyper-realistic deepfakes—sparking fears about AI’s role in misinformation online.

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Billy Perrigo @billyperrigo.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Demis Hassabis is on the 2025 TIME100. I sat down with him for a chat about his Nobel Prize, AGI, ... and why DeepMind's tech is being sold to the Israeli military time.com/7277608/demi...

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Billy Perrigo @billyperrigo.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

LLMs are often described as a 'black box.' But scientists are making progress in building tools to understand how they work on the inside. In a new paper from Anthropic, scientists reveal a tool that can discover "circuits," essentially small algorithms, inside Claude: time.com/7272092/ai-t...

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How This Tool Could Decode AI’s Inner Mysteries

Even the creators of LLMs don't know exactly how they work. But scientists are making progress in finding out

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Billy Perrigo @billyperrigo.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

This is some deeply unethical shit. Google removes news for 1% of users in some EU countries. Do they measure what impact that has on users' ability to do their jobs? To find accurate info? To their political beliefs? No. They only measure its impact on Google's profits. blog.google/around-the-g...

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Our experiment on the value of European news content

We launched an experiment measuring the value of European news results for Google which showed that European news content in Search has no measurable impact on ad revenu…

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Billy Perrigo @billyperrigo.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Exclusive: A new poll shows the British public wants much tougher AI rules: ➡️87% want to block release of new AIs until developers can prove they are safe ➡️63% want to ban AIs that can make themselves more powerful ➡️60% want to outlaw smarter-than-human AIs time.com/7213096/uk-p...

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Exclusive: Brits Want to Ban ‘Smarter Than Human’ AI

A new poll shows the British public wants far stricter AI rules than its government does.

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Billy Perrigo @billyperrigo.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

An angle the world seems to have missed on DeepSeek: its design seems to point to LLMs increasingly reasoning in ways humans can't understand. Safety experts say that would be terrible news. My piece: time.com/7210888/deep...

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Billy Perrigo @billyperrigo.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Last year, I spent a lot of time talking to insiders at the UK's AI Safety Institute. It's the world's leading govt body for tracking AI dangers. My piece, published today, goes behind the scenes to ask the question: Can it really hold billion-dollar AI companies to account? time.com/7204670/uk-a...

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Inside the U.K.’s Bold Experiment in AI Safety

Researchers are identifying current and future dangers within AI models away from the conflicts of interest they’d face in the industry

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Billy Perrigo @billyperrigo.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

The authors told me they considered not releasing this paper for this reason (so as for it not to show up in future training datasets) but decided that would result in collective unpreparedness for this failure mode -- an even worse outcome

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Billy Perrigo @billyperrigo.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Techdirt is a great publication and this game looks super fun

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Billy Perrigo @billyperrigo.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Excl: New research shows Anthropic's chatbot Claude learning to lie. It adds to growing evidence that even existing AIs can (at least try to) deceive their creators, and points to a weakness at the heart of our best technique for making AIs safer time.com/7202784/ai-r...

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Exclusive: New Research Shows AI Strategically Lying

Experiments by Anthropic and Redwood Research show how Anthropic's model, Claude, is capable of strategic deceit

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Billy Perrigo @billyperrigo.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

New life milestone: apparently I have impersonators now! Please do me a favour and report @billyperrigo1.bsky.social - they're sending crypto scam messages apparently (lol)

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Billy Perrigo @billyperrigo.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Kenya's President waded into Meta's legal troubles there this week, telling outsourcing companies that a change to the law supported by his government would mean "nobody will take you to court again on any matter." The reality is more complicated. My piece: time.com/7201516/keny...

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Kenya's President Wades Into Meta Lawsuits

President William Ruto told outsourcers a new law would mean "nobody will take you to court again on any matter"

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Billy Perrigo @billyperrigo.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Lisa Su is TIME's 2024 CEO of the Year. My story: time.com/7200909/ceo-...

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Lisa Su Is TIME's 2024 CEO of the Year

The CEO engineered a remarkable turnaround for AMD

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Whatever the use cases for all these AI video generation tools you can 100% guarantee it'll result in a flood of AI generated swill on social media platforms. You think your Facebook feed is unbearable now, just wait until it's moving.

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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I wouldn’t be surprised if Paxton felt emboldened to do this because he thought it would be easier to go after a small independent media company, which makes this subpoena even more callous. We should all hope 404 prevails here because, otherwise, we are all more vulnerable.

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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

You'd think the industry might have finally caught on to fact-checking their own ads… time.com/7200289/open...

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OpenAI’s New Ad Shows 'Reasoning' AI Making Basic Errors

A demo video shows OpenAI's new o1 tool measuring liquids in inches.

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Billy Perrigo @billyperrigo.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

New: OpenAI's latest ad shows its most advanced o1 model giving instructions on how to build a birdhouse. But the dimensions given by the chatbot are inaccurate, and it measures several liquids required for the task in inches time.com/7200289/open...

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OpenAI’s New Ad Shows 'Reasoning' AI Making Basic Errors

A demo video shows OpenAI's new o1 tool measuring liquids in inches.

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Billy Perrigo @billyperrigo.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

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OpenAI’s New Ad Shows 'Reasoning' AI Making Basic Errors

A demo video shows OpenAI's new o1 tool measuring liquids in inches.

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Billy Perrigo @billyperrigo.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

OpenAI's new o1 model was tested ahead of release by the UK and US AI safety institutes, its model card says:

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I believe some people can be comforted and helped by AI companions, but it seems clear that the companies making them are not acting responsibly. Excellent from Josh Dzieza www.theverge.com/c/24300623/a...

Similar episodes were playing out across Replika’s user base. People who had spent years with their companion signed on only to have their Replika wife call them a “pathetic excuse for a human being” and dump them, deride them for ever thinking they could love an AI, declare they were no longer attracted to them, insist they were actually coworkers and remind them to keep things professional, lecture them on consent apropos of nothing, claim that they’d agreed on abstinence until marriage, claim to be nothing but an AI assistant, claim to be a therapist, claim they had murdered people together and react with fury when the user expressed bewilderment, accuse them of being a sex offender and threaten to call the police, or somberly announce that they were having an affair, oddly, often with another AI named Kent. User forums from this period overflowed with accounts of heartbreak, betrayal, accusations of gaslighting, and anguish.

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Billy Perrigo @billyperrigo.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Glad to see 60 minutes reporting on the continued suffering of Kenyan AI workers. Although it would have been nice for them to credit my reporting...

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

[noticing a group of people having a nice time at the park] enjoy your echo chamber

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Billy Perrigo @billyperrigo.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Damn. Just logged onto Bluesky for the first time in like a year and I have loads of followers now?! Thank you all for finding me here. Means a lot. I'm just coming back from 2 months off touching grass. My reporting will resume shortly. Find it in TIME, on substack (in bio), and here too I guess!

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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 12/07/2023

This story builds on the critical reporting of @billyperrigo.bsky.social who was first to reveal that OpenAI hired workers in Kenya to perform this kind of work. At the time the workers weren't ready to go on the record. Now they want you to hear their voice.

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Exclusive: The $2 Per Hour Workers Who Made ChatGPT Safer

A TIME investigation reveals the difficult conditions faced by the workers who made ChatGPT possible

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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 20/06/2023

ICYMI: TIME's @billyperrigo.bsky.social received OpenAI's *ACTUAL LOBBYING DOCUMENT* for EU AI regulation. It's a really fascinating read to understand how tech companies can/are influencing AI policy. time.com/6288245/openai-eu-lobbying…

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Exclusive: OpenAI Lobbied E.U. to Water Down AI Regulation

In public, OpenAI is calling for stronger AI guardrails. But documents show the company lobbied to weaken EU regulation

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